Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. I’ve been using these participatory categories to talk about how we’d like users to participate in different projects.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

We had an incredible team of women tech advisers from Silicon Valley, all experts, and who taught classes on how to use various tools such as Google, Canva, and Indiegogo, complete with detailed work books with exercises. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Putnam, who has written extensively about social capital in American society in his book, Bowling Alone. I learn a ton from her every day and wanted to share her thinking--and her graduate thesis--with you. Cardboard tube orchestra at Radical Craft Night.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2015

Social media thought leader Charlene Li has published another book titled “ The Engaged Leader: A Strategy for Your Digital Transformation ” that provides organizational and business leaders with the skills and path to habit change they need to lead in a connected world. This means sharing stories and visuals.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

“It depends on whether this is the beginning of a trend or an extremely exceptional response to an extremely exceptional situation,” said Rebecca MacKinnon, co-founder of Global Voices, a network of bloggers worldwide, and author of “Consent of the Networked,” a book that addresses free speech in the digital age.”

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Tunisia Reflection NGO Libya 105

Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Books are a distant second at 61%, and a majority of Americans find print and broadcast media and the Internet to be not trustworthy." Museums aren't the only venues facing this question: news outlets, corporate brands, and educators are also grappling with the question of trust in the participatory age. Be personal.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Roberto Bedoya : The "Yes And" Argument and its Civic Implications Bedoya, the Executive Director of the Tucson Pima Arts Council, makes a beautiful statement that arts administrators need to facilitate a multiplicity of leading voices, or as he puts it, "the courage of imagination and the plural."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Alliance Magazine, September 2012.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

This week, we're covering the first objective in Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff's book Groundswell : listening (chapter 5). Yes, the Exploratorium is also present in these arenas as a "talker" (more on that next week), but it is just one voice among thousands. What does it mean to listen to the groundswell?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

Most of my work contracts involve a conversation that goes something like this: "We want to find ways to make our institution more participatory and lively." Most museums that offer interactive exhibits, media elements, or participatory activities offer them alongside traditional labels and interpretative tools. Fabulous!" "But

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. “Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. And while anything you do the first time will not be perfect and in many cases stressful, in the end it was a good experience.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

After her husband’s sudden death in 1955, and with three children to raise, my grandmother grew the store, purchasing the ends of fabric bolts and ribbons from local mills, secondhand clothing, toys, dishwares, books, and an assortment of knickknacks to sell. Tags: participatory museum guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! So far, most participatory museum design projects are heavily guided by the institution. MN150 will have formal summative evaulation, which is wonderful.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. Small museums, which are most likely to cultivate local, distinctive voice and approaches, often have an inferiority complex. I've only visited about 0.01% of the institutions out there and I suspect that the other 99.99% includes some real gems.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2010

This is the second in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. Several hundred people contributed their opinions, stories, suggestions, and edits to The Participatory Museum as it was written. When a page on the wiki became very busy with many voices, it was hard to follow (scroll down on this page for an example ).

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. When I decided to write a book about visitor participation in cultural institutions, I knew I'd do it in a way that reflected the values behind the book itself--transparency, inclusion, and meaningful community participation. But that didn't matter.

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Participatory Museum Process Experiment 33

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Anna had been the founding Curator of Education at the National Building Museum, led the Rolling Rainforest project, and was a real innovator in developing in-depth participatory design experiences with community members (though I wouldn't have used those words at the time). There is lots of room for new voices online.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

I'm working on a section of my book about sharing social objects and am writing about the most common way that visitors share their object experiences in museums: through photographs. To me, an open photo policy is a cornerstone of any institution that sees itself as a visitor-centered platform for participatory engagement.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

Across the country, geeks inside and outside of government are developing a new model for a participatory and transparent Federal, State and Municipal governments. This stellar group of speakers (some of whom wrote books on the subject) will uncover the real impetus behind the karaoke revolution.". But it wasn't here to enterain, no.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

Small, quirky projects like the public art geocaching exhibition in Bellevue, WA , and inspiring surprises like the Living Library program and book-drop based tagging at the Hague. But enough of these experiences have convinced me that the participatory museum is not a fringe concept. In other words, there's a lot going on.

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Museum Voice Minnesota Participatory 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Many institutions do this unintentionally--by providing post-its or comment books, pens or crayons. By simplifying and personalizing the design technique used for the institutional voice, visitors felt like they were part of a natural conversation with the institution. What have you seen work well, and what have you seen fail?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In our years of talking to staff, boards, and communities about participatory philanthropy, people often talk about their worst participatory decision-making experiences. New to Participatory Grantmaking? Skilled facilitators work towards supporting dissenting voices, ensuring participants understand different viewpoints.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2010

This is the first of a four-part series on the behind-the-scenes experience of writing The Participatory Museum. This week, we'll look at the overview of the process of the creation of the book and some overall statistics for user participation. Many of the book sections started as blog posts on Museum 2.0. Restructure the book.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Yesterday, I had the delightful opportunity to participate in the 3six5 project , a yearlong participatory project in which 365 people write 365 journal entries for every day of 2010. It showcases diverse voices. I think of 3six5 as a coffee table book that is being written one day at a time.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

The kind of strategic planning processes that I lead are inclusive and participatory which means that the group is consulted, the vision of the group, the energy, we kind of tap into the energy, vision, knowledge, experience of the people who will be doing the work in order to make plans. Where are we not putting our energy?

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Jeremy Heimans, co-author with Henry Timms of the best-selling book “New Power,” recently spoke with Blackbaud’s Rachel Hutchisson at bbcon 2018 for a recording of The sgENGAGE Podcast. Showing voice. And we tell a story in the book of a video game called Star Citizen and it’s really an allegory for our time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Code for America helps governments become more connected, participatory, and more Lean through new opportunities for public service. One of the Lean Startup’s core concepts is build>measure>learn —the process that start ups follow to iterate and learn. Ashley Meyers, Code For America (Development and Engagement Manager).

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. A few things I learned from the presentations and discussion: Dan shared a useful 4-step mental model for the progression of how institutions move towards participatory engagement.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

In these conversations, people often say, "don't expert voices matter?" It lets you be the only expert with a voice. Single voices represented on single labels is not scalable. On LibraryThing, you can tag and talk about books. Ideas participatory museum usercontent. and my emphatic response is YES. Each Web 2.0

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. Make sure that you share that plan back with them and you let them know that their voice helped to impact this plan and here’s how they continue to stay involved. . That could be a book topic, perhaps. How do we do this well? Yeah, exactly.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2019

Woman reading a book on a beached rowboat, 1925. I spent 2007-2011 traveling the world, doing participatory projects and consulting gigs, and writing my first book. You gave me confidence, guidance, and stories for my books. You gave me support as I struggled to lead a museum through a participatory rebirth.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

This is the fifth installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. Every Tuesday in June, this blog is featuring a guest post examining some aspect of the book. You can join the conversation in the blog comments and add your own voice to the debate. In the 1930s, W.E.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

There are many parallels between free-choice learning and participatory design. No teacher is going to book a field trip to a place that is not tightly tied to school curriculum. BUT we won't acknowledge their voices and their meaning. A graduate degree looks good on a resume. My goal is to break down those BUTs.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. In these conversations, people often say, "don't expert voices matter?" It lets you be the only expert with a voice. Single voices represented on single labels is not scalable. On LibraryThing, you can tag and talk about books.

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Authoring Share Museum YouTube 44

Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

But there are other times when the message isn't simple, and in those cases, visitor voices can help strategically shape multi-dimensional exhibitions. It can be uncomfortable or downright limiting to declare yourself and your single voice the authority on a complex or multi-faceted topic. Do you think he’s worth nominating? ”

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